About the Author

Name: Shem El-Jamal

Position: Creator and Head
Author of DiscerningtheMystery.com

Discerning the Mystery Mission:
To provide truth-seekers with a diverse array of news and
information, as well as the skills necessary for accurate,
independent journalism and research, and to help readers succeed in
their overall quest for knowledge.

Education: B.A. In Industrial
Design

Description: Product development
introduced me to a brand new way of observing and appreciated our
physical experience as human beings. This primed me to study and
appreciate my own awakening experience as it unfolded, and drove me
to help others discover and appreciate the inner journey and its
ability to prepare us for virtually
every new discovery in our lives.

Roles

Independent Journalist

Graphic Designer

Artist

Free-thinker

Lifelong Student of Science, Spiritually, and Consciousness

Biography

My upbringing was significantly
difficult in a number of ways. Being raised by a single mom, we were
impoverished, but grateful for what we had. In general, we struggled
to find a place in society because of what we endured. Even still,
for the most part, me and my siblings were (and still are) naturally
sensitive and caring people.

Early on, my family got involved a
Christian church that turned out to be very controlling, elitist, and
cult-like on a number of levels. However, due to a lack of social
insight at the time, the reality of this unhealthy environment went
unnoticed. It took a good portion of my life for me to realize how
unhealthy and manipulative this religious environment was. Even,
this near life-long experience was helpful in that it taught me the
difference between real authentic love and control.

I spent my college years giving all of
my energy to religious tradition, and found my life lacking in nearly
every other area. My latter years of college demanded all of my time
and energy while at the same time, my health was beginning to fail in
unnatural ways. Though I had an avid interest in martial arts and
body consciousness, my body did not cooperate. I managed to finish
my college education with a high GPA, but with deteriorating health.

Not long after I entered the work
force, I realized that my body was not going to let me get far. I
was faced with a debilitating illness which made work increasingly
difficult, but my life had all of the demands of a normal and healthy
person. I did my best to do what I could until my body gave out.
This was followed by an extended sick leave (which led to permanent
resignation) from my then-current job, as well as years of extreme
pain, surgeries, extended hospital stays, and further isolation from
normal society.

During all of that time, I was
gradually awakening to the greater spiritual reality that I had
missed until then. I was also awakening to the possibilities of
health, longevity, and vitality which illness had prevented me from
experiencing.

This was also a time when I was
receiving several intense downloads of information which I did not
understand at the time, but which I knew would play a significant
role in the future.

At that same time, the supernatural was becoming a particular interest of mine as well. This was not entirely due to my
initiation, but due to various phenomena which seemed to follow me
wherever I went. Even roommates, at times, would tell me about
strange experiences they had while living with me, but they shared
these occurrences before they were aware that anything unusual had
happened in my life. Only after they opened up did I share my own
experiences, and the details they shared paralleled my story so well
that it was nearly impossible to write the correlations off as pure
coincidence.

After all of the physical difficulties
that I had endured combined with all of the knowledge, spiritual
experiences, and insights I gained, I was encouraged in a number of
ways to come forward and share what I had gained with others.
However, initially, I did not know how.

Following a rocky start, I found that a
personal blog was the best way to communicate with everyone who
wanted to consider the insights I had to offer. I also knew that the
healing that I needed was not going to come from a society that was
fueled by slavery, poverty, sickness, and death. Further, I knew that I
was only one of millions of people who were suffering in similar
ways.

I figured that if I wanted to gain
health, freedom, peace, and full knowledge of the cosmos, why not
help the planet do the same?